Chinese people are believed to have enjoyed tea drinking for more than 4,000 years. After that, for a long time, tea was used as an Chinese medicine. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, tea was a religious offering. During the spring and autumn, people ate fresh tealeaves as vegetables. Tea as a drink popular during the Tang Dynasty, and teashops became popular. A major event of this time was the achievement of ‘Tea Classics’, the base of Chinese tea culture, by Lu Yu, Tea Sage of China. Influenced by the cultural style of the Song Dynasty, tea culture at this time was graceful and magnificent. New skills created many different ways to enjoy tea. The Ming Dynasty laid the base for tea processing, tea types and drinking styles During the Qing Dynasty folk art entered teashops, making them popular entertainment centers. This habit is still practiced in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. In the Ming Dynasty, tea was sold to Southeast Asian and South African countries. In 1610 tea went to Europe via Macau in a Dutch merchant ship. Thus tea became an international drink .